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(ii) by the repeal of the words "the officer in charge of the police station" in the second line of sub-section (5) thereof, and the substitution therefor of the words "any such lance- sergeant or officer as is mentioned in sub-section (3)".
Objects and Reasons.
1. Section 2 (i) of this Ordinance effects minor changes of police procedure by substituting two new sub-sections for sub- sections (2) and (3) of section 18 of the Police Force Ordin- ance, No. 37 of 1932, extending to European lance-sergeants of police and other European officers of police of equal or superior rank the duties in respect of persons in police custody and the powers as to release on bail of such persons, formerly exercised only by officers in charge of police stations.
2. This extension is necessary in order to facilitate in- quiry into, and the release on bail of persons charged with numerous petty offences now investigated by such officers, who in the mixed police force of this Colony exercise many of the functions performed elsewhere by officers of nominally superior rank.
3. Section 2 (ii) makes a consequential amendment in sub-section (5) of section 18 of the Police Force Ordinance, 1932.
4. In new sub-section (3), added by section 2 (i) of this Ordinance to section 18 of the Police Force Ordinance, 1932, the wording of section 38 of the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879, (42 & 43 Vict. c. 49), as enacted by section 22 of the Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914, (4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 58), has been more closely followed than in the sub-section which it replaces.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.
December, 1935,